Cuban Communism/8th EditiIrving Louis Horowitz Transaction Publishers, 1 janv. 1995 - 873 pages Forty-six essays, presented by avowedly anti-Castro editors and gathered mostly from US journals and books of the past couple decades, are organized into five sections devoted to the history, economy, society, military, and polity of Cuba. Some of the specific topics treated include: Cuban and Soviet relations; decentralization, local government, and participation; economic policies and strategies for the 1990s; the politics of sports; political and military relations; and forecasting institutional changes after Castro. In addition, two appendices present a chronology of the Cuban revolution from 1959 to 1998 and biographical essays on 19 revolutionary leaders. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Table des matières
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| 13 | |
Mass and Class in the Origins of the Cuban Revolution | 31 |
Guerrillas at War | 55 |
Eisenhower Castro and the Soviets | 79 |
The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited | 105 |
Immutable Proclamations and Unintended Consequences | 123 |
Cuba and the Soviet Union What Kind of Dependency? | 141 |
25 Revolutionary Defense Committees | 489 |
26 Literacy Yes Books No | 499 |
27 Writers and Artists in Todays Cuba | 509 |
Militaty | 525 |
PoliticalMilitary Relations from 1959 to the Present | 527 |
The Cuban Military in Angola | 551 |
Military Origin and Evolution of the Cuban Revolution | 569 |
War of all the People Cubas Military Doctrines | 599 |
Fidelismo The Unfulfilled Ideology | 173 |
Economy | 185 |
Cubas Economic Policies and Strategies for the 1990s | 187 |
Interdependence and Economic Performance in Cuba | 215 |
Cubas Agrarian Productivity | 223 |
Cubas Underground Economy | 245 |
Labor Force and Education in Cuba | 271 |
Managing State Enterprises in Cuba | 289 |
Ideology Planning Change and NoGrowth | 313 |
Challenges and Policy Imperatives to the Economy | 337 |
Society | 363 |
Higher Education and the Institutionalized Regime | 365 |
The Conventionalization of Collective Behavior | 387 |
20 Political Control and Cuban Youth | 413 |
Womens Rights and the Cuban Revolution | 427 |
Juvenile Delinquency in PostRevolutionary Cuba | 449 |
Journalism and Propaganda in the New Cuba | 469 |
24 Health Care in Cuba | 483 |
Political and Military Elites | 623 |
The Ochoa Affair and its Aftermath | 629 |
Human Rights and Military Rule in Cuba | 667 |
Polity | 689 |
Why the Cuban Regime Has Not Fallen | 691 |
To Fall or Not to Fall? | 699 |
Cubas Cloudy Future | 713 |
Love Hate and Death | 729 |
Cuba Adrift in a PostCommunist World | 739 |
Myths and Realities in USCuban Relations | 761 |
The Cuban Revolution and Its Acolytes | 771 |
Crises of the Castro Regime | 783 |
Two Faces of Fidel Don Quixote and Captain Ahab | 803 |
The End of the Road | 823 |
Castros Legacy | 849 |
EPILOGUE | 861 |
Contributors | 865 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
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